Scarlett and Amber were getting out of their truck outside a brick warehouse. They were dressed in their cleaning company’s t-shirts and shorts, Scarlett in red and Amber in yellow.  Both looked like they were glad it was Friday.

“Amber, please tell me we’re close to getting sponsored for the league so we can close this side business. This is our sixth gig this week and I’m honestly not sure how I’m still in one piece.”

“Oh come on Scarlett. We need the money, and it’s good endurance training.” Amber leaned over Scarlett’s shoulder to snark in her ear, “And every time you escape a trash compactor, that’s more practice for un-cubing yourself in a race.”

Scarlett’s face blushed red, “Look, I’m sorry we got stuck on the vacuum on Monday! I just want to stop being the team that does janitorial work on the side some day.”

Amber nodded. “Yeah, me too. Let’s just get this over with. ”

They knocked on the door. A minute later, they were met by a portly fellow with a black beard. “Ah, you must be the Dust Bunny Cleaning Service. Thanks for coming out here on short notice.”

Amber and Scarlett both smiled. “No, thank you for hiring us!”

Their host laughed, “Yeah they told me you were energetic. That’s good! Come on in.  Oh, name’s Bob.”

* * *

Bob, gave them a quick tour before bringing Amber and Scarlett to the main warehouse room they would be cleaning. It was painted a nondescript taupe color, and was surprisingly large. "Our automated cleaning system," he gestured to a roomba as it drove past the group, "does good work collecting dust on the floor. It honestly stops the place from being a complete mess. Unfortunately, it doesn't help with anything that’s up high, or anything big. The folks shipping things in last week left too much junk lying around. I need all this trash out of here, yesterday!"

Amber nodded. "So you need us to get the bigger trash and clean out the rest of the dust on the shelves!"

Bob delivered an exaggerated point in her direction.  "Exactly! So far, it's been worth it to bring in small time cleaning services like yourselves when I need something done quickly." Bob continued his mini-tour. "You can plug your equipment in here.  Make sure you get dust out of the vents back there, I think the previous cleaners keep missing that spot for some reason.  Mind the wires and the air conditioning vents, and let me know if you see anything broken."

Bob pointed at the roomba once more "The in house cleaner drops off dust in there," he gestured to a door that had a small opening at the bottom, "If you see anything that doesn't make sense just throw it in there. I think that's it then, let me know if you need anything!"  Bob clapped his hands together with a smile, turned, and left the ladies to their work.

* * *

Scarlett and Amber decided to split up and work towards the middle of the room.  Scarlett went to one dusty corner and got started. It looked bad on the surface, but it was far from the dustiest place she had ever been in. Cleaning this up would be a breeze!

"Just a little more near the top here..." Scarlett started getting out tube extending equipment for her vacuum to reach on top of one of the higher up pallets.  She was collecting dust off the top of some boxes that stuck out just a little more than the rest, when she knocked a pile of dust into her face.

Scarlett felt a sneeze coming on, and started tensing up.  "Ah, ah...AH-CHOOO!!!"  "Gesundheit!" yelled Amber from across the room.  Unfortunately for Scarlett, she tensed up and squeezed her cleaning gear, swinging it into the shelves in front of her. That was enough to knock a box free, sending it plummeting towards Scarlett. She looked up at the source of the clang just in time to see her fate.

*SMASH!* *SQUOOSH!*

Scarlett all but disappeared under the huge container.  The edges of her deep red hair, shirt, and pancaked breasts could be seen poking out from underneath, as more dust settled around her flattened body.

“ACHOO!" *BWOMP*

Scarlett’s sneezing puffed her up. Scarlett's new 2 inches of height were just enough for her to wobble around and slide the box off of her head.  

*SHLEEEUUUUURP*

There was a loud peeling noise as the box started leaning over, parts of her sticking to it as it moved. Scarlett's upper body stretched out, everything below her hips still pancaked on the floor.

“I...Will...not...get...ripped...in...half!” Scarlett’s overstretched face was clenched with determination. Her shirt looked small on her stretched body, barely covering her chest, as she pushed against the box with her arms to peel herself away.

*THUD* *SHLUUUURP*

Once the box rolled to the side, Scarlett messily snapped back to where her squished legs were stuck to the floor, her body flattened body spreading out further from the force. Her eyes were still spinning as she mumbled "Did anyone get the license plate on truck what went through here?" After taking a moment to mentally recover, she began literally pulling herself back together.

Scarlett focused on her body and *SHLUUUUUURP* her torso peeled off the ground and jiggled up into a normal shape.

Next she puffed her cheeks a little, and *POP*POP*, her feet managed to get free under her flattened legs. Scarlett muttered and waddled around to loosen them up, then closed her eyes and concentrated.

*POP* her legs re-emerged from the pancake into her normal shape.  Scarlett fell to the floor, still a little dizzy, and started getting her readjusting her clothes.

* * *

Amber thought she heard some sounds across the room, like boxes falling over and scraping along the floor, but kept working. Whatever it was, Scarlett would have to learn to handle mishaps on her own eventually.

Amber’s side of the warehouse had the cold storage unit. She cleaned around it first but was facing the reality of heading into the colder areas.

She walked up to the door separating the cold section from the rest. “At least cleaning outside helped me work up a sweat. Hopefully I worked up enough body heat to keep me warm in there.” Amber’s enthusiasm was destroyed when she opened the door.

“HAS ANYONE EVER CLEANED IN HERE?!”

Boxes were thrown everywhere. Large chunks of packaging were left on the floor. Amber was pretty sure someone left their lunch on the floor. After burying her face in her palm for a moment, Amber shook her head and started taking things out.

As she started moving out boxes, lots of smaller dust and debris fell to the floor. Soon enough, the Roomba was running around collecting the smaller pieces of trash. “Oh, so you just needed the boxes out of the way? Okay Roomba, I’ll work on the big things and you get the rest, okay?”

The Roomba beeped for the first time Amber could remember, and sped away. “Huh...that was weird. Ah well,” she shrugged and continued her cleaning.

Amber made a lot of progress from just large boxes. Running back and forth was keeping her warm at first and built up a little sweat. She looked at the Roomba dutifully cleaning dust left over from whatever was stuck to the boxes. “Alright, now to work on some of the smaller stuff that’s too big for you Roomba.” The roomba paused, beeped again, and continued its work, while Amber took her vacuum cleaner off her back. “I think I can clean this up fast.”

Amber went to work on the bigger chunks that wouldn’t fit in the roomba. She was getting a lot cleaned up, but was mostly standing in one place and not moving big things around. Standing up cleaning in the cold, it took her a while to notice her body temperature dropping.

After a while, there was only one shelf left with junk on it. Amber was kneeling to reach for it, and finally starting to realize her predicament. Her teeth were chattering wildly. “Th-there, o-one m-more box h-here. M-my this sh-shelf is c-cold. Is it r-really th-that c-c-c-cold in here?” Amber looked at her hand and saw her arms were half blue. “Uh-oh...I th-thought I was cl-cl-cleaning fast enough...”

Amber tried to hug herself to warm up as the refrigeration units kicked in again. She only just started dragging the trash towards to her when her body couldn't take it anymore.  She yelled “Brrrrr!!! as she succumbed to the cold and turned a uniform shade of ice blue, frozen solid.

Amber’s teeth were still chattering audibly as the box fell out, brushing against her leg. Unable to react, Amber's frozen body rocked back and forth.  Her eyes widened, but she gradually came to a stop, still balanced on in her crouch on the floor.

"Whew...that was too close" she thought. Right on cue, the roomba came through to collect the dust from the junk.  It bumped into Amber's frozen butt a few times, not realizing the ice statue in the room was its coworker. With each *TINK*TINK* Amber's eyes got even bigger, looking as though they were trying to pop out of their icy prison.  "Ack, no! EEK!!!" She shouted with each bump, but her low center of gravity saved her from tipping over.

Her elbow was grating the side of the shelves with each bump.  Her arm itself was holding up pretty well, only a little ice was getting shaved off. Unfortunately, it was slowly shaking a screwdriver left on top of the shelves closer to the edge, directly above her head.

As the roomba backed away and Amber, having collected what it could around her from the floor, her eyes went back to their normal relaxed size. "Wow...that was too close.  Hopefully Scarlett comes over soon and find me so I can get myself back to nor-"

The screwdriver fell directly onto Amber's head mid-thought, chipping off some of her frozen hair. Amber's eyes looked up with dread as cracks slowly spread out from where it struck.  She could feel her body losing structural integrity.

"Me-” *CRRRK* “and my big” *CRRRRRRRK* “mou-"

*KRKSSHHHH!!!*

A loud shattering sound filled the air as Amber's body broke apart into several chunks of ice. Each shattered more as it crashed against the floor. Near the center of the resulting pile of ice cubes were Amber’s frozen eyes, spinning from the shock and facing opposite directions. They were slowly coming to rest when she felt parts of her frozen body getting flung through the air and pulled someplace. Amber focused her eyes and found the small Roomba cleaning her up. "Oh, I’m getting sucked into a small robot..cool."

* * *

On the other side of the warehouse, a fully recovered Scarlett was making good progress. She had just finished one aisle and was turning to the next. The floor was covered with dirty footprints, shards of styrofoam, and something she figured was rotting fruit. “Wow, this must be why why needed us. Who leaves behind a mess like this?!” She got out her industrial vacuum and got to work.

The footprints were Scarlett’s first target. The vacuum helped with the obvious loose debris, but didn’t get everything. “Damnit, I’m going to need the mop for this.”  She turned to get her gear, but failed to notice a roomba full of ice cubes speeding towards her on its way to the trash drop off room.  It bumped into Scarlett, causing her to fall on her plush rear end.

“Whoa!”

Unfortunately for Scarlett, she also lost her grip on the vacuum.

“OOOOOMPH! WUHWOAH”

Scarlett’s arms windmilled backwards to try and keep her balance, and she heard the ominous “click” of the device powering on.

"Ooof! Ot at ork!" was all Scarlett could manage as she absorbed the stream of air from the vacuum. Her body started ballooning, emitting a low *HISSSS* sound as her curves expanded against her clothes. She tugged at the vacuum to pull it out of her mouth, but her hands were already starting to become useless as they puffed up full of air.

*HISSSSSS*
“MMMMMMMmmmph”

Scarlett was growing fast, her butt and boobs already spilling out of her clothes. She was already several feet wide, her tummy peeking out of her shirt. Scarlett was still trying to push herself away from the vacuum with her arms, but her expanding beach ball boobs were getting in the way. Soon her limbs were stuck in an immobile position, her whole body taking on a rubbery sheen as she could no longer make it move the way she wanted. She was even struggling to stay balanced, her legs getting sucked into her body as they expanded with air, leaving Scarlett bouncing on her stomach.

*VRRRRRIP*

A tearing sound echoed through the room as Scarlett's clothing gave up. As good as this would feel at home with a friend, she was not in the mood to pop on the job today. Her surviving undergarments looked like they were painted on, and they didn’t do a very good job of hiding her growing assets. Scarlett's mind was racing. Her hair looked like an inflatable wig as she struggled to contain all the air rushing into her body.

She billowed out past 12 feet in diameter, starting to look more like a sexy parade balloon than an athlete. The pressure was even causing her eyes to bulge out as her body creaked near its limit. She was focusing everything she had on moving her lips off the pipe with what little mobility she had left.

*Ptttt!* Scarlett FINALLY managed to get free of the pipe.  "I did it!"  Scarlett's celebration was short lived, since the all the air inside her was anxious to escape.

*WHOOSH*

Scarlett started flying around the room butt first, all of the stored air shooting out of her mouth.  Scarlett bounced off of two walls before her butt slammed into one the many sharp corners in the room. Her balloon body was forced against it, her face contorting as her body desperately tried to find space for the pressure within before the edge pierced her skin.

"OOOOOOH MYYYYY-”
*BOOM!!!!*

Scraps of Scarlett floated down across the room. Roomba had more work to do.

* * *

Fortunately the trash room did not have good drainage. Amber slowly thawed out and her melting chunks started flowing back together. Once she had collected enough of herself, she formed an arm to make gathering the rest of herself easy.

"Uuuugh...that happened," she said to the empty room. "At least I can get back to work now."

She started for the door when the roomba came in again.  It deposited several familiar looking scraps on the floor. Amber couldn't help but laugh. "Oh well, at least I'm not alone in here!"

The pile squeaked back "Oh no, you too?"

Amber smiled back at Scarlett "Yeah...here, let me help piece you back together."

“I thought I needed race practice.”

“You do, but I also want to go home on time.” Amber found the scrap with Scarlett’s face and winked, “We can practice puffing you up more tonight.”

* * *

Scarlett and Amber returned to work.  With a little more care to avoid accidents, they made good time cleaning the room. Soon they were working relatively close to each other.

Scarlett eventually found the machine closet. It was riddled with boxes and other assorted trash. "Ugh, can't they just throw these out immediately?!" She complained while stacking box upon box near some machines at the door. Each trip sent her further into the room, and she was starting to sweat from the heat generated by all the refrigeration machines pumping cold air to other rooms. “Wow, I didn’t think it would get so hot from these things. I better hurry.”

On one of her return trips from the depths of the room Scarlett saw the roomba busy cleaning up the dust she was dragging back to the entrance. Her walking speed was noticeably slower, like she had to put extra effort into every step. “Good work little guy. That’s good, I’m starting to get really tired in there. As long as we work together we...wait where did that come from?”

Watching the Roomba, Scarlett noticed red spots and white footprints on the floor that weren’t there before. They matched her hair color. “Uh oh...” She turned around and saw matching sticky footprints trailing up to her.  Looking straight down, Amber saw that her shoes and feet were melted up to her ankles, and more of her hair was dripping into a puddle on the floor.

Scarlett went to scratch her head but felt her fingers mush up against her head instead. "Oh...good...well, at least that explains it. I probably should have let this room air out more first." Her arms drooped as her legs pooled up, her body slowly sinking into itself on the floor. "Dangit Amber...why did we have to work today..."

On the bright side, melting felt very relaxing. Scarlett was enjoying the feeling of her legs spreading out on the floor, and could feel the heat soothing her muscles. “Ah well...I didn’t get to enjoy bursting earlier, no reason not to enjoy this.” Her sinking slowed as her butt sunk into her growing puddle. She swayed her hips as her she pooled up, enjoying the feeling of her body sliding around with the consistency of cake batter. She sighed with delight, “Mmmmmm, it’s good to just relax.” Once her butt was reduced to a pile of goop, she squeezed her breasts, screaming her approval as they oozed through her fingers.  She lost her balance and fell backwards, splattering on the floor and splashing red hair everywhere. Scarlett’s body was a mess, but she was in heaven.  

“Oooh yeeeeaaa-blblublublub” Scarlett closed her eyes as her head bubbled into the puddle on the floor.

* * *

Amber continued cleaning, not noticing Scarlett's absence for a few minutes. Amber figured she must have gone to the bathroom, because her stack of boxes at the machine room fell over. Still wary of temperature problems from her chilling experience earlier, Amber jogged over and restacked the boxes.

Amber soon noticed Scarlett's abandoned vacuum, and the roomba sucking up some familiar looking goop. It didn’t take Amber long to realize what happened. "Hey, wait a minute, I need that puddle! She's my ride home!" Amber sprinted over to try and restore her friend before she got dumped into the storage room again, but slipped in her instead. "ACK!" A little Scarlett splashed on Amber, as Amber skidded on her melted friend towards one of the room's power centers. "Danger high voltage...Why did I try to heeeEEEEeeEEEeELlLEee-"

*BZZZZZZZZZZRT!!!!*

Amber lit up as if struck by lightning, a yellow glow surrounding her skeleton as the electricity surged through her. Lights throughout the warehouse flickered a little before the current released her.

Amber was struggling to stand, covered in dark scorch marks, hair standing on end, and smoking rising off her from the shock. "Next time somebody stop me when I get a bright idea." Amber coughed, as some blue static crackled through her hair.  Amber looked down a little worried having lost feeling in her legs, and saw them disintegrating.  A pile of Amber colored dust was accumulating on the floor as her body looked like draining sand. “Oh...This is fine.”  Her hips up to her chest followed, crumbling. Amber felt like a cool breeze was cutting through her body as pieces of her fell apart to join the pile of herself on the floor.

* * *

The roomba turned from cleaning up the last of Scarlett, and moved to the pile of Amber. It did what it does best, and quickly sucked up the dust.  What happened next was unexpected.

Amber's ashes and Scarlett's goop quickly mixed together inside the roomba.  Its storage bin started rumbling, and anyone looking at it would have seen bulges coming out of the top, as if something was trying to fight its way out.  After a few moments, the Roomba's top opened like a clam shell, and it “threw up” a light reb blob. The goop quickly started growing into a female figure. She was a little taller and a little bustier than either Scarlett or Amber individually, her hair Amber's brown with Scarlett's red highlighting the ends. She looked at her hands, studying herself, before rolling her eyes in frustration.

Scarlett and Amber were mentally talking to each other in their shared, fused head.

"Looks like we got mixed up again," Scarlett thought to Amber.

"Yup. At least we were almost done, right?"

"Yeah, let's just finish this up. We can worry about sorting ourselves out once we get home."

"Agreed"

* * *

With not much more of the room to clean, the fused Scarlett and Amber was able to move quickly. They had some coordination issues at first, but this wasn't their first time stuck together in one body. Their extra height made it easier to clean higher up areas, and combined strength made it easier to move the bigger pieces of equipment out of the way.

Unfortunately, they were carrying more weight on their curvier body too.  They misjudged the space needed for their large breasts, and bumped up against the last uncleaned shelf in the room. It shook most of the dust loose for their friend the roomba, but also sent a big machine tumbling out right on top of them.  "Aaaack!!!"

Scarlett-Amber caught the large computer, but it was too heavy for even their combined strength. Their body started compressing, butt spreading out on the ground as they lost the war against gravity.

*SQUOOOOOOOSH*

They yelled “OOF!” as the large box squished them into a pancake.  Their arms and some of their stomach retained some thickness around the edges, spread out far enough to not be completely covered.  The ladies argued in their head.

"Can you get anything on your side?"

"I think we can lift it from this side?"

"Okay lift on 3"

"Wait...I think we're touching a button here?"

As Scarlett pushed up her arm pushed the button, getting them sucked into a DVD drive. "Yeeeaaaaaaaaaarg!!!" the unsquished parts of their body were *SHRLUUUUURP*ed under the corners and into the somehow still running machine.

A buldge formed in the computer's ethernet cables, sending Amber and Scarlett out the building.

* * *

Back at the house, Zoe was busy reading her latest comics when she got a notification for new email. Inside was an image of a woman in a sexy pose. “Oh you’re a cutie...hey wait a minute.” Zoe noticed the odd hair highlights and eye color of Scarlett and Amber’s fused form. "HAH! Okay what happened beautiful..."  

She read the email's text, "Please print so we can sort ourselves out, <3, Scarlett and Amber."  

Zoe giggled. “Okay girls, I don’t know what you got yourselves into, but I guess I can click print."

The printer hummed to life, slowly printing out Zoe’s fused friend. They got printed head first, growing back into 3 dimensions as they emerged. "It's been a day. Can you help us split up again Zoe?"

"Mmmm...I can think of a few ways to make you melt. We are having some FUN while you're stuck like this!"

Scarlett-Amber roller their eyes, sticking their tongue out at Zoe. “Please, we don’t need to absorb you too. We need to rela-” they stopped talking when the printer made several loud click noises and stopped.

"Uuuuh...Zoe?"

Zoe was looking at the printer, worried. "Um...you two take a lot of ink to print out okay? I've got to run to the store for more, be right back!"

Scarlett-Amber could only hang there, half printed, arms crossed, and wait for Zoe’s return.